Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Books are the curse of the human race.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.